Assisted Outpatient Treatment

Assisted Outpatient Treatment is a forecasted federal funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The opportunity number is SM-27-002, and the Assistance Listing is 93.997, Assisted Outpatient Treatment. The opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding in the Health category and is expected to be issued as a cooperative agreement. Grants.gov identifies the opportunity as Forecast 1, with a forecast date and last updated date of September 3, 2026. The opportunity is associated with fiscal year 2027. The purpose of the Assisted Outpatient Treatment program is to facilitate implementation of Assisted Outpatient Treatment for adults with serious mental illness. Recipients are expected to implement an Assisted Outpatient Treatment program and work with civil courts, community partners, and other entities to support community-based treatment for adults with serious mental illness who meet the criteria for Assisted Outpatient Treatment. The source does not provide additional program objectives, specific performance measures, detailed allowable or prohibited costs, or other spending restrictions at the forecast stage. Estimated total program funding is 5300000, with approximately nine awards expected. The source does not state an award floor or award ceiling, so no minimum or maximum individual award amount can be established from the available information. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement. Cost sharing or matching is explicitly identified as not required. The source also does not provide a project period, period of performance, indirect cost limitations, subaward restrictions, or per-year funding amounts. Eligible applicants include county governments and city or township governments. Additional statutory eligibility extends to counties, cities, mental health systems, including mental health authorities, mental health courts, and any other entities that have authority under the law of the state in which the applicant is located to implement, monitor, and oversee assisted outpatient programs. Eligibility therefore depends not only on organizational type but, for entities beyond the specifically identified local governments, on possessing the applicable legal authority to operate and oversee an assisted outpatient program. No particular state or territory restriction is identified in the forecast. Because this opportunity is currently a forecast, detailed submission mechanics and application requirements are not yet provided in the supplied source. The estimated posting date is December 15, 2026. No estimated application due date, pre-application deadline, letter of intent requirement, concept paper requirement, application questions, required attachments, evaluation criteria, or detailed submission instructions are stated. Applicants should therefore rely on the future posted opportunity for the definitive application deadline, required application materials, evaluation process, and submission requirements. The estimated award date is September 30, 2027. No estimated project start date or archive date is provided, and the source does not establish that the opportunity recurs annually or according to another regular schedule. The named grantor contact is Angela Mark at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Questions concerning the forecast may be directed to Angela Mark by email at angela.mark@samhsa.hhs.gov or by telephone at 240-276-1871. Because several application and award details remain unstated at the forecast stage, those fields should remain unverified until the full funding opportunity is posted.

Applicants should be prepared to demonstrate applicable legal authority to implement monitor and oversee an assisted outpatient program and to describe an implementation approach involving civil courts community partners and other relevant entities supporting community-based treatment for adults with serious mental illness who meet Assisted Outpatient Treatment criteria.